Crevising tools to scrape material out of rock crevices for panning. Such as a screwdriver, knife, brush or a commercially available tool.

Magnet for removing heavy magnetic material such as magnetite.

Snifter bottles to remove fine gold from the pan.

a Pick, Shovel and Bucket

If water is an issue then a half a 44 gallon bucket that you can fill with water to recycle over and over for panning is handy.

Where You Can Go Panning For Gold

See this page Alluvial Gold. Refer to the table on that page to the section that is headed "Where to Look For the Deposited Gold" in the Alluvial Gold column.

But dont think that is the only place to go panning, in another page on Loaming for Gold we will explain why panning can be very lucrative in other areas and maybe even lead you to the mother lode primary source!